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D. Cambodia is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. The Khmer Rouge were allied with Vietnamese communists during their war with the United States. During the war, U.S forces heavily bombed Cambodia along its border with Vietnam in an attempt to cut communist supply lines.
B. In China, communist revolutionary Mao Zedong led an economic and social campaign from 1958 to 1962 aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. However, it is commonly considered to have caused the Great Chinese Famine. The Great Leap Forward was blamed for 18 million to 55 million deaths.
A. Nearly 97 percent of Cambodians are Buddhists. The Cham Muslims suffered serious purges under the Khmer Rouge with as much as half of their population exterminated. They now account for about 1.2 percent of the population.
C. At the end of 2017, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice, according to Amnesty International. Of the approximately 50 nations with the death penalty, 23 executed 993 people last year. China executes the most people, and the U.S. is the only developed western nation still carrying out executions